Sign on highway between Sykesville, Pennsylvania and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Jack Delano

Artwork Overview

Jack Delano, Sign on highway between Sykesville, Pennsylvania and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Jack Delano, Sign on highway between Sykesville, Pennsylvania and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Jack Delano
Sign on highway between Sykesville, Pennsylvania and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
1940
Jack Delano
1914–1997
Sign on highway between Sykesville, Pennsylvania and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, 1940
Where object was made: Pennsylvania, United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 15.8 x 23.7 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 1/4 x 9 5/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 1986.0065
Not on display
Add to portfolio

If you wish to reproduce this image, please submit an image request

Images

Label texts

Exhibition Label: "Signs of Faith: Photographs from the Collection," Oct-2001, Elissa L.Anderson Delano’s photograph of this billboard painted with this exclamatory religious message was made during the Depression for the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration. It speaks to the fervent religiosity felt during the economic crisis and in the years leading up to World War II.